Back Off Bethel!

Dear People of Bethel Church:

I would like to give you a piece of my mind, and perhaps a knuckle sandwhich to the chin for coming up to my little boy today at In-n-out. It's great that you're at a Bethel conference learning whatever strange Bethel thing it is that you're learning, but we do not appreciate the unwanted and unsolicited prayer you prayed in front of a huge crowd of people while we were trying to eat our french fries.

My baby boy is beautifully and wonderfully made in Christ's image, we do not want him to be "Healed" or "fixed" we do not agree with your prayer to "grow all the things he is missing". He is PERFECT exactly the way he is. All you showed him today is that he's different than everybody else and that it needs to be fixed so it will go away. Thank you for giving us more reasons to hide in our house, away from staring eyes and prying questions. I know you were trying to "bless" him, but all you really did was embarrass him.

Maybe you should preach a little less signs and wonders and a little more sensitivity.

Sincerely,
Erin Warkentin
representative for children with special needs everywhere. They are God's children.

Excuse This House

Some houses try to hide the fact
That children shelter there,
Ours boasts it quite openly,
The signs are everywhere.

For smears are on the windows,
Little smudges are on the doors
I should apologize, I guess
For toys strew on the floor.

But I sat down with my child
And we played and laughed and read
And if the doorbell doesn’t shine,
His eyes will shine instead.

For when at times I’m forced to choose
The one job or the other,
I’d like to cook and clean and scrub,
But first I’ll be a mother.

-unknown

Facebook Pet Peeve #1

I am sorry if this offends some of my mommy friends out there, but I need to get this off of my chest. Things that are acceptable status updates about your kids: The funny thing they said today, what you're doing with them this weekend, something they just did that cracks you up.

Thing that is NOT acceptable to post on your status update:

How many times your kid pooped in the potty today. I do NOT want to know what color it was, nor do I want to know about it's consistency or frequency. While I believe that potty training is a very big challenge, I am not interested in hearing about your child's feces. It's gross.

There are some things that are just too much information.

And that is my facebook pet peeve for today.

What seems to be the trouble?

*Insert maniacal laugh here.................................
Noah Trouble Warkentin

Noah is 14 months young and the world is his oyster. I have never seen anyone get into so much trouble as he does. It is really amazing how fast he can do it. Just in this week alone he has managed to put chocolate all over the couches (while daddy was sleeping), dump out the contents of our garbage and eat it (while mommy was showering) and had one massive explosive diaper in a friend's pool (while everyone was swimming). Yes, this is my son ladies and gentlemen.

Though cleaning up the mess afterwards can be a challenge, I am actually enjoying this entirely different, totally fearless, trouble magnet of a little boy. Mostly I'm just glad he's not eating his poop (no, that was last month).

Tim says....

Tim says that I write too many depressing mommy blogs.

I feel like I used to be more fun, what happened? Maybe I've spent too much time in hospitals.

So I was totally going to write a blog about Elijah getting his final cast off, and what a relief it was. I was going to write about what it felt like, and how much different life was going to be from now on. But dangit all if he isn't right about being too depressing. So instead, I am going to write a blog about otter pops.

I love them. Seriously I think I will be like 95 years old and still eating otter pops. Frankly, at 95 you don't have many options, what with missing all the teeth and such. I just love how cold and fruity they are. And how I can look down on the floor and see like 50 clear wrappers and wonder "How did I eat so many?". I think living in Redding has really brought on my otter pop addiction. It's the only thing that seems to make 104 degrees bareable. Well, otter pops and a pool I guess. But since I don't have a pool, I'll settle for the pops.

So while there are many things that make October a real highlight for me, the biggest being my baby's arrival, there is one thing that will make me want to prolong October as much as possible. Because when that fateful month arrives, all the Ottery Pop goodness that once flooded my world will be gone. Yes gone... with only candy corn to replace it.

Actual Erin Thoughts July 14, 2010

*I have a whopping 14 comments on my Duggar Blog that I wrote a year ago. It amazes me that people STILL keep commenting on it. Maybe I should write another one?

*I am obsessed with ice cream now. Ice cream and pizza. I think when this baby comes out I am going to have to lose about 80 pounds.

*Tim and I want to get a tattoo, but we don't know of what. It's so hard to find one that's original. Maybe the only original tattoo out there, is to not get one.

*My ten year highschool reunion is coming up in 2 months. I find it difficult to justify spending $100 just to drive down the street to Riverview Golf and Country club and talk to people who never liked me and I was never friends with.

*I want to write a book someday, but I know I'll be too chicken to ever get it published.

*It bugs me when people can ONLY talk about their kids. Don't they have anything else going on in their lives? It makes me wonder, what did they talk about BEFORE they had kids?

*I love the show Wipeout. I'm not sure what it is about watching not-so-physically-fit people falling over and landing in mud, but it cracks me up.

*I have been trying to read the book: Eat Pray Love for the last 2 weeks but I can't seem to get into it. I mean, it's about this middle-aged woman with an extremely depressing life. What sort of entertainment does that bring? I think I'll stick with teenage vampires thank you.

Summer book recommendation #1

Need an intrigueing new book to read? Might I recommend a new sparkly gem?

Now I am not one for zombies. I avoid all zombie movies, and anything really related to the genre. But this book sounded so intrigueing, I just couldn't avoid it. It's a short read, but a good one.

Synopsis: A young woman lives in a small village AFTER the "return" a.k.a. the zombie war that pretty much wiped out the world. It's a village shrouded in mystery, and surrounded by a very high fence that "The unconsecrated" (or the zombies) constantly attack in order to get to them.

Think the The Village meets 28 days later. It's a great read and definitely worth your time.